What distance should you keep when overtaking a passenger car?
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Correct answer
A. Safe, dependent on the width of the road and traffic conditions.
Explanation
When overtaking a passenger car, you keep a safe distance that depends on the width of the roadway and traffic conditions - answer A. The rules do not require a distance greater than 1.5 metres (B), and a distance of less than half a metre (C) would be dangerous.
The Road Traffic Act states that when overtaking, the driver is obliged to exercise particular caution, and in particular to keep a safe distance from the vehicle or road user being overtaken; the fixed minimum of 1 m applies to overtaking bicycles, cycle carts, mopeds, motorcycles, electric scooters, personal transport devices, people on mobility aids and columns of pedestrians. When overtaking a car, you move to the left so that you do not catch it with your mirror, and you remember that at high speed both cars are pulled towards each other by the air flow.
Legal basis: Art. 24 para. 2 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)